Pedicellinidae

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Pedicellinidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Lophophorata
Phylum: Entoprocta
Order: Solitaria
Family: Pedicellinidae
Johnston, 1847

Pedicellinidae is a family of Entoprocta belonging to the order Solitaria. [1]

Genera: [1]

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Entoprocta Phylum of aquatic invertebrates

Entoprocta, or Kamptozoa, is a phylum of mostly sessile aquatic animals, ranging from 0.1 to 7 millimetres long. Mature individuals are goblet-shaped, on relatively long stalks. They have a "crown" of solid tentacles whose cilia generate water currents that draw food particles towards the mouth, and both the mouth and anus lie inside the "crown". The superficially similar Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) have the anus outside a "crown" of hollow tentacles. Most families of entoprocts are colonial, and all but 2 of the 150 species are marine. A few solitary species can move slowly.

References

  1. 1 2 "Pedicellinidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 8 April 2021.